Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong, who nearly died this spring, is happily back practicing for his eventual return to work, shown in the upstairs den of his Corona, New York home on June 23, 1971.

Louis Armstrong, kneeling in front with trombone, came to Chicago to join King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, shown here in 1922. (William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University Library) ...

Louis Armstrong has been rightly hailed as the most important figure in early jazz for almost as long as Paul Whiteman, once its biggest star, has been denied his due. Under the racially apologist ...

Louis Armstrong show at New Orleans Jazz Museum is 'the beginning of all that jazz became' A battered cornet is on view at the exhibition “It All Started in Jane Alley: Louis Armstrong in New ...